Generative AI
When & Where
The Next Frontier: Generative AI
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2023 | 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A2Speakers
Shomit Ghose is currently a partner at Clearvision Ventures, a Silicon Valley Venture fund focused on energy and infrastructure sustainability. Previously, he was general partner at ONSET Ventures, where he led investments in early-stage, data-centric start-ups from 2001 through 2021. Prior to entering venture capital, Shomit spent 19 years as a start-up entrepreneur, serving in virtually all functional roles, and participating in multiple successful exits, including Sun Microsystems, Broadvision and Tumbleweed. Shomit has held an appointment as lecturer at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering for many years, teaching data applications, and is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of San Francisco. He serves on both public and private boards, and multiple scientific advisory boards, in both the US and Europe. Shomit received his degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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- 05/05/2023 | 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm PDT
- 45 mins Hall A2Speakers
Jeremiah is well recognized by both the tech industry and the media for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. From corporate innovation, autonomous technology or modern wellbeing, he views every aspect of emerging technologies through the lens of growth, opportunity and constantly shifting consumer behaviors and expectations. Forever at the forefront, he identifies trends and advises major companies to adapt their business models to better connect with customers. His clients include Adobe, Cisco, Wells Fargo, Nestle, Esurance, Johnson & Johnson, Visa, and Colgate among others.
An acknowledged thought leader and widely read publisher, Owyang has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and Fast Company. He also publishes numerous research reports, playbooks and frameworks to help businesses navigate change, improve customer experiences and identify trends before they happen.
Owyang's career took shape as an analyst with Forrester Research, advising on social strategy for the interactive marketer. He was a Founding Partner and Research Director at Altimeter Group, specializing in customer strategy and emerging technologies. He formed Catalyst Companies in 2013 to focus on the emerging collaborative economy and the maker movement.
Owyang is recognized as the definitive authority on corporate innovation programs, ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business.
A popular speaker and presenter at conferences and events around the world, from global conferences, corporate kickoffs, or on a TED stage, Jeremiah is ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business.
Yan-David Erlich ("Yanda") is the Chief Operating Officer of Weights & Biases, the developer-first MLOps platform. In this role, he has built out the GTM, Marketing, Data, BizOps, and Strategy teams.
Prior, Yanda was a General Partner at Coatue where he helped start and ran the enterprise investing practice for Coatue's Venture funds (investing in Seed through Series B companies). He also personally led Coatue's AI/ML investments in Weights & Biases (Series A), Impira (Series B), Infinitus (Series A), Fin (Seed & Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A).
Yanda is a 4-time venture-backed Founder/CEO, most recently of Parsable: the Connected Worker platform for industrial teams. He also founded ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn), Mogad (acquired by Qualcomm) and Happiness Engines. He is an active angel and an early investor in Mixer Labs (acq. Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, and Buddybuild (acq. Apple).
Yan-David started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft. He has a Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum (WEF). Deepam Mishra is a Sr Advisor to AI/ML Startups at AWS. He is leading Strategy for Generative AI Startups and Co-Innovation. Before joining AWS, Deepam co-founded and led AI Country Plan at Microsoft Corporation and started the AI Startup Program at Wipro Technologies. Deepam has been a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded 4 AI/ML startups in areas including computer vision, robotics and security. He was the CEO/founder of Venture Factory - a global incubator and seed fund that created multiple successful impact startups including in mobility, sustainability and healthcare. Deepam has a BSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, an MSEE from Texas A&M and an MBA from The Wharton School. He has 5 US patents and numerous publications. He is based in the Silicon Valley. Alex Babin is the Co-founder & CEO of Zero Systems, a VC-backed AI startup headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. The company offers an operating and orchestration system for building, deploying, and maintaining AI applications to augment knowledge workers at large enterprises. Knowledge work is a people-dependent business requiring specialists that are expensive, difficult to scale, and subject to attrition. Using Zero Systems, enterprises can increase revenue, improve profitability, and enhance worker satisfaction. Zero Systems was recently recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in data-centric AI.
Mr. Babin is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned CEO with over 20 years of experience in the automotive, SaaS, and AI industries. His first technology startup, which he founded at the age of 24, was a hybrid vehicle company funded by DFJ. Alex founded Zero Systems in 2015 with the aim of substantially increasing knowledge worker productivity by combining cutting-edge technology with advanced security and a user-centric application design. Alex is an expert in generative AI and large language models (LLM) with a focus on enterprise use cases. He is routinely featured in op-eds and media interviews at elite business and technical publications. Kavitha Prasad leads Intel's overall AI strategy and execution efforts. She has held several engineering and leadership roles in her 20+ years tenure in the industry, and as an experienced Business and Technology leader across a wide range of system applications, system architecture, business development, and go-to-market strategies, Kavitha has delivered competitive solutions to Cloud, Enterprise, and Embedded markets.
Her broad hardware and software experience enables her to provide multiple successful products in ASICs, SOCs, FPGAs, and servers across various process nodes. In addition, leveraging her passion for building authentic customer relationships and coupling it with her technical engineering and business acumen, Kavitha delivers AI and Machine Learning solutions in training and inference across edge to cloud. Kavithare-joined Intel in 2021 to drive Intel's AI strategy and execution efforts. Before re-joining Intel, Kavitha was VP, Business and member of the founding team at SiMa.ai and served as director of engineering at Xilinx Corporation.
Rajan Sheth is the VP of Marketing and Growth at Cohere. He's also an investor in early to mid-stage B2B SaaS companies. Rajan was a technologist in his previous life with roles in engineering and product. Since the last decade, he's been leading marketing and growth for B2B platforms through bottoms-up and enterprise sales-led go-to-market motions.
Previously, he led Heroku's (Salesforce Platform) Marketing and growth organizations resulting in 10x revenue growth to $550 mil ARR. Before Heroku, he led Growth for Box and scaled marketing efforts through their IPO phase. Before Box, Rajan was a founding member of a start-up at HP Enterprise, focused on building self-service platforms from the ground up for dev ops and developer products across database, security, and APM spaces. He led the marketing, growth, and analytics organization for the Online business platform that later became the SaaS business for HP Software.
Rajan has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and a Masters from UCLA Anderson business school.
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- 05/05/2023 | 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A4Speakers Deepam Mishra is a Sr Advisor to AI/ML Startups at AWS. He is leading Strategy for Generative AI Startups and Co-Innovation. Before joining AWS, Deepam co-founded and led AI Country Plan at Microsoft Corporation and started the AI Startup Program at Wipro Technologies. Deepam has been a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded 4 AI/ML startups in areas including computer vision, robotics and security. He was the CEO/founder of Venture Factory - a global incubator and seed fund that created multiple successful impact startups including in mobility, sustainability and healthcare. Deepam has a BSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, an MSEE from Texas A&M and an MBA from The Wharton School. He has 5 US patents and numerous publications. He is based in the Silicon Valley. Krishnaram Kenthapadi is the Chief AI Officer and Chief Scientist of Fiddler AI, an enterprise startup building a responsible AI and ML monitoring platform. Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI, where he led the fairness, explainability, privacy, and model understanding initiatives in the Amazon AI platform. Prior to joining Amazon, he led similar efforts at the LinkedIn AI team, and served as LinkedIn's representative in Microsoft's AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research (AETHER) Advisory Board. Previously, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab. Krishnaram received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006. He serves regularly on the senior program committees of FAccT, KDD, WWW, and related conferences, and co-chaired the 2014 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development. His work has been recognized through awards at NAACL, WWW, SODA, CIKM, ICML AutoML workshop, and Microsoft's AI/ML conference (MLADS). He has published 50+ papers, with 4500+ citations and filed 150+ patents (70 granted). He has presented tutorials on privacy, fairness, explainable AI, responsible AI, and model monitoring at forums such as KDD ’18 ’19 '22, WSDM ’19, WWW ’19 ’20 '21, FAccT ’20 '21 ‘22, AAAI ’20 '21, and ICML '21, and instructed a course on AI at Stanford. Will is CEO and Co-founder of TruEra, the leading AI Quality software company. Will became passionate about addressing the challenges of building, explaining, testing and monitoring high quality machine learning and algorithmic systems for enterprises when he experienced them firsthand while leading both product development and customer-facing teams at his prior startup, BloomReach. Prior to TruEra, Will held a variety of leadership roles at three successful startups, BloomReach, Clearwell Systems (acquired by Symantec) and Neoteris/Netscreen (acquired by Juniper Networks). Will holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College. Robert Moseley IV is a seasoned professional in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with over a decade of experience in implementing and consulting on AI solutions. He is currently the Head of Implementation and Consulting at Copy.ai, a company that leverages AI to help businesses create high-quality content.Prior to his current role, Robert has held various leadership positions in AI-focused companies such as Moveworks and Cloudinary. He has a strong background in engineering and architecture, which has enabled him to design and implement AI solutions that are tailored to meet the specific needs of his clients.His expertise in AI and his ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple and understandable manner make him a valuable asset to any organization looking to leverage AI to drive business growth.
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- 05/05/2023 | 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A4Speakers Shaloo Garg is Managing Director, Growth Stage Startups & Unicorns based out of Silicon Valley and Global Lead for Microsoft Global Social Entrepreneurship Program. She brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, strategic partnership and corporate development experience. Previously, at Oracle, Shaloo was a Partner, Global Oracle Innovation at Oracle where she led the Global Corporate Innovation practice of commercializing revenue opportunities for AI startups into enterprise customers and partner ecosystem. She has also led go-to-market for Oracle's Cloud business and was in M&A team that acquired Peoplesoft, Siebel, Retek etc. Prior to joining Oracle, she was in a couple of early stage startups. Shaloo is passionate about Tech for Good and is President, BOD at UN Women, Silicon Valley , a "Champion of Innovation" at UN Women advocating and building programs to increase opportunities for educating young girls in developing economies. Shaloo was recently announced as the BOD at NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center focused on Data&AI. Shaloo strongly believes that technology is the strongest catalyst for driving change for social issues like hunger, poverty, STEM education, clean water, energy, sustainable cities etc in developing and under-developed economies. Shaloo is a Guest speaker at Penn Law School and is an MBA from Delhi University and has done specialization in Innovation and Design Thinking from Stanford d.School. Words to live by: "In life, there are no mistakes... only lessons" - Vic Johnson.
Ganesh Bell joined Insight Partners as a Managing Director to invest in and help entrepreneurs build great software & data companies that will define modern enterprise and digital business. He has over 25+ years of rare experience as a builder and operating executive across startups, high-growth scaleups, global conglomerates, unicorns, successful exits, IPO, and M&A.
Raviraj Jain is a Partner at Lightspeed, a global venture capital firm with $18B+ in capital under management and presence across India, China, South East Asia, Europe, Israel and North America. Raviraj has been with Lightspeed since 2017 and focuses on investments in AI, deep tech and enterprise software. Raviraj serves on the boards of companies like Snorkel AI, Fiddler AI, Tonkean, Dexterity AI and several others. Previously Raviraj was a product leader at LinkedIn. Raviraj holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay. Sandhya Hegde is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures, a $1B early stage fund focused on enterprise software. Sandhya leads Unusual's investments in SaaS across generative AI, modern GTM, builder tools and analytics. Shruti Gandhi, is the founder of Array Ventures. Array Ventures is an enterprise data AI fund that invests at the preseed stage. She is based in Silicon Valley and has invested in over 75 companies in their preseed rounds which are now worth billions. With over 10 exits to companies such as Apple, Paypal, ServiceNow, Amazon, JAMF, and others. She is on Techcrunch 10 VCs that founders like list alongside investors from Greylock and First Round. She has attended Booth school of business and Columbia University for her Masters in Computer Science. Sonal is a Principal at Tau Ventures, investing in early stage AI startups in healthcare, enterprise, and automation. She began her career in buy-side M&A, evaluating multi-billion dollar deals at a Fortune 500 MNC in India, led business development at the top-rated heart hospital in India, and served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Signos - a metabolic health startup. Sonal holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and an MBA in Healthcare Management and Finance from Wharton. Outside San Francisco, she feels most at home in remote corners of the world photographing wildlife.
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Track Chairs
Professional: Director of Enterprise Partnerships at Excelerate.it Advisor, Investor Campfire Labs (sold to Groupon) Founder at Ezzinetworks and Codeniti.org Silicon Valley product, partnerships leader, ex-Broadcom, LSI Logic
Education: Exec Management - Harvard Business School Entrepreneur Fellow - Royal College and Cambridge Univ. M.S.E.E - WSU Ohio, B.Eng. BioMed - Mumbai Univ.
A Product Entrepreneur, Enterprise Executive and Angel Investor, Murtuza has led products and services exceeding $1B+ ARR over 20+ years at Fortune 500 companies.
Murtuza loves connecting the dots as a strategic partnerships and ecosystem builder. Currently he heads the Corporate Partnerships at Excelerate.it where he has built a community of CXOs and decision makers at fortune 1000 companies to help global B2B SaaS startups scale. Domains include AI/ML, Generative AI, Cloud, Wireless, IoT, SaaS among others.
Earlier in Silicon Valley, he set up and led a $400M enterprise business for Broadcom, and is currently an Angel/Growth Advisor to several startups. He has had several successful exits, including Campfire Labs which was sold to Groupon, Programmr.com, YOSS and Mlabs among others. He has also Co-Chaired several Industry verticals for TiECon since 1999.
In India, he founded Ezzinetworks and sold it to an ISP, co-founded Codeniti.org - India's first developer community which pioneered 'hackathons-as-a-service', and he championed partnerships at BaysideSports - a Anand Mahindra portfolio startup, which partnered with Sachin Tendulkar's TMGA Academy.
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Before joining industry, Shaunak obtained a PhD in AI/ML from UC Berkeley (2013) and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science degree from IIT Kharagpur (2007). He has 50+ patents and 15+ publications primarily in the AI and consumer internet space.
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